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This week’s Reefer Report Card breaks down the chaos: Trump’s rescheduling talk stalls, Connecticut raids implode smoke shops, a Massachusetts sheriff faces federal extortion charges, Florida patients remain locked out of hotels, and a landmark court ruling restores gun rights to medical marijuana patients. Progress is rare, but this legal victory delivers a sharp reminder of what real reform looks like.
A federal appeals court cracks the wall between cannabis medicine and the Second Amendment, ruling that patients shouldn’t be stripped of their gun rights. This pivotal decision signals the beginning of the end for decades of federal hypocrisy and outdated prohibition logic.
Pete Davidson’s claim that weed is “too strong” isn’t just a personal meltdown, it’s ammunition for prohibitionists eager to push THC caps and bad laws. Cannabis culture has fought for decades to kill myths and lies, and we won’t let one unstable celebrity hand our enemies the soundbite they’ve been waiting for.
Five plus years after legalization, Canada has pulled most consumers into the legal cannabis market. A new Waterloo study shows 78% of users buy legally, with prices converging and Ontario leading sales past $2.1B. With over 3,000 stores nationwide, Canada’s retail footprint is crushing the illicit trade while the U.S. still lags.
A group of licensed dispensaries is suing New York State after regulators admitted they approved stores using the wrong buffer zone measurements. Over 150 cannabis businesses, most of them social equity operators, now face relocation or shutdown. The Office of Cannabis Management’s zoning blunder has triggered legal chaos, broken trust, and exposed the fragility of New York’s so called cannabis reform.
The latest Reefer Report Card grades a week of cannabis chaos: DEA raids licensed shops in Nevada and Wisconsin, Massachusetts regulators flunk an audit, New York zoning chaos wrecks dispensaries, and Michigan police bust a $10 million grow. Federal promises of rescheduling remain empty, leaving the war on weed alive and regrouping
